Sunday, September 18, 2005
Joke's on me this time
Oh-well, here is another post to let myself pretend that I still am a part of the blogging community...I actually came up on the new google blog-search. Hmmm...since I last posted..I'll just be personal. Political commentary is just a 'trip down denial' compared to the tsuris of the homefront. I could bitch about the big things, but tonight I just feel like moaning about my own life.
The house renovation adventure is ongoing of course...we're back in the old home place...several tens of thousands of dollars spent...new kitchen (love it)...new bathroom (love most of it-even if the tile setter was impaired when it came to identifying and repeating patterns) still have to pay the contractor some $ and he still needs to finish up: a bunch of trim, hang some doors, finish painting.
None of that is nearly as important and my husband's diagnosis of prostate cancer. No big surprise there..his PSA levels have been rising exponentially and he was spending way too much time visiting the potty every night. My sanguine attitude is due to the fact that the biopsy reports the malignancy is at a very early stage and eminently treatable...just a pain in the ass for both of us.
We are minimally looking at a period of either celibacy or 'creative intimacy' as well as some time in the land of Depends...no way around that from all I have read etc...Oh well, it could have been much worse...He wants surgery and I am backing that option 100%. Radiation and hormone treatments are for more advanced cases and the side effects sound even worse than the above. Oh they include the impotence and incontinence all right...plus more fun than we need to deal with.
I am now working full time as a teacher aide for third graders and also a daily single period, 6th grade girl's math class..all in all- 8am to 4:30pm. We need the money and I like the kids. It is just exhausting work. I hope I can do it all..work-his surgery and oh yeah, my surgery too!
I have to get carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel surgery on my left hand and elbow respectively-ASAP I have a lot of numbness-tingling pain yadda yadda (of course I am not supposed to be typing at all....)They tell me that I am facing permanent nerve damage if I dont get it done pretty soon.
All these medical events mean that we will soon be in fairly massive debt and I hope we wont have to sell the house earlier than planned. We had a long term plan, a grand plan. We even liquidated part of our retirement to fix up the house. It was supposed to take about three and a half years to re-fund the 401k and the savings and then we'd sell the house, after that we'd retire. Play with the grandkids
Man plans - God laughs
whine-whine-whine
The house renovation adventure is ongoing of course...we're back in the old home place...several tens of thousands of dollars spent...new kitchen (love it)...new bathroom (love most of it-even if the tile setter was impaired when it came to identifying and repeating patterns) still have to pay the contractor some $ and he still needs to finish up: a bunch of trim, hang some doors, finish painting.
None of that is nearly as important and my husband's diagnosis of prostate cancer. No big surprise there..his PSA levels have been rising exponentially and he was spending way too much time visiting the potty every night. My sanguine attitude is due to the fact that the biopsy reports the malignancy is at a very early stage and eminently treatable...just a pain in the ass for both of us.
We are minimally looking at a period of either celibacy or 'creative intimacy' as well as some time in the land of Depends...no way around that from all I have read etc...Oh well, it could have been much worse...He wants surgery and I am backing that option 100%. Radiation and hormone treatments are for more advanced cases and the side effects sound even worse than the above. Oh they include the impotence and incontinence all right...plus more fun than we need to deal with.
I am now working full time as a teacher aide for third graders and also a daily single period, 6th grade girl's math class..all in all- 8am to 4:30pm. We need the money and I like the kids. It is just exhausting work. I hope I can do it all..work-his surgery and oh yeah, my surgery too!
I have to get carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel surgery on my left hand and elbow respectively-ASAP I have a lot of numbness-tingling pain yadda yadda (of course I am not supposed to be typing at all....)They tell me that I am facing permanent nerve damage if I dont get it done pretty soon.
All these medical events mean that we will soon be in fairly massive debt and I hope we wont have to sell the house earlier than planned. We had a long term plan, a grand plan. We even liquidated part of our retirement to fix up the house. It was supposed to take about three and a half years to re-fund the 401k and the savings and then we'd sell the house, after that we'd retire. Play with the grandkids
Man plans - God laughs
whine-whine-whine
